The Effects of Child Support Pass-Through and Disregard Policies
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This paper is based on a report prepared under Contract C-1980 between the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and the Institute for Research on Poverty. The authors thank Emma Caspar for exceptional efforts in supervising the collection of the policy variables used in this analysis, Judith Cassetty and Royce Hutson for work on related projects on which this analysis draws, and Dawn Duren, Robin Snell, and Elizabeth Evanson for assistance in preparing this manuscript. Any views expressed in this report are those of the author and not necessarily those of the sponsoring institutions.
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